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... run 4-1. Nijinsky, proclaimed as the horse of the century, s\\'(‘(?3s the board as he wins the 2000 Guineas, the Derby, the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the St Leger. Des;l)llte being riddled with worms for the Arc De Triomphe, Nijinksy ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1999
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

run 4-1

... run 4-1. Nijinsky, proclaimed as the horse of the century, sweeps the board as he wins the 2000 (L,uineas, the Derby, the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the St Leger. Des<e being riddled with worms for the Arc De Triomphe, Nijmksg is only ...

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... There was no more thrilling sight in sport than Piggott aboard the likes of Never Say Die, Teenoso and the incomparable Nijinsky, thundering to victory with another perfectlyjudged finish. Partial deafness and a speech impediment made him a solitary ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1999
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 236 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

The finest shot

... called her vivacious. She had Caruso to sing at her social gatherings and was a friend of the great Russian ballet dancer Nijinsky. But she was remembered as the widow of the all-too colourful lover of Lily Langtry, the hardliving fourth Earl of Lonsdale ...

AN ARTIST from Bev- g oang erley has just finished a e T commiissioned oil paint- 5. ’ ing of

... 15.2hh own right as a race- were English flat racers the Blue Grass Stakes light bay, who was 29 horse, but also for his Nijinsky, Sadler's in America, and the when he died two years offspring, many of Wells, The Minstrel, Queen’s Plate - ago. which have ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1992
Newspaper: Beverley Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 341 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

T'he finest shot in all England

... loaders in the early She had Caruso to sing at her social gatherings and was a friend of the great Russian ballet dancer Nijinsky. This week, Richard Clark revisits the turn of the century and examines the life together of two of North Yorkshire’s most ...

Published: Friday 17 April 1998
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1523 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

in all England

... dour husband. But she also left a dia. mond brooch and crystal ficure of a tiger to Queen Sy She was a friend of the great Nijinsky and, as Lord Ripon had a financial interest in Covent Garden, was able to help his career. She even tried to introduce the ...

Turf Talk with ff Garlick

... etched into the history of this great race. The list of past winners reads like a who's who of equine brilliance. \ Park Top, Nijinsky, Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Dahlia, The Minstrel, Troy, Dancing Brave, Generous, the list is endless. The fact that this ...

Turf Talk with ff Garlick

... individual on the conveyor belt has been bought or nurtured with wealth beyond most people’s wildest dreams. His father, Nijinsky, was a Derby winner, his mother, Snow Bride captured the fillies equivalent the Oaks. With such breeding he was born to be ...